Glare and light shield for use with an automobile visor



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Feb. 11, 1,941. ye'. s. {SIHWA'B GWB .mn LIGHT sa'mm ron USE vwlw AN mimosas v1son'7 `Y f5 www l eww! regu, 11u11'l um'reo y "STATE Ernest Stevens Seixmb. m.

Applicatie@ weleer 2, 1939, Berlsi No. 297,551 v 1 'com (ol. eee-e7) Thi?. lnventlon relates to :immobile visore and more eerleuieriy to en. emmers" glare. and light devlce for nee therewith.

Toe object of this invention is to provide a shield device for use wlfn e conventional auto moelle virer .sind so designed es lio be adjustable in e varier? of pzxeliierls when mounted on eel( virer, the shield heine formed of a memperent 1n namen-lei el #moll e. celnr and chez-amer es to eliminate si! @are end @ne o'ojeconeble.

eee E33 nigh?, driving; be @miete the glare of the .rays o! 15 Leto the een when ille seme is lowI es during the eerly momias; and late awel-noon hours.

With the foregeng and other objects in view, the invention resides in. the novel arrangement 20 and combination of parte and in the detalls of csnstmoizion llerender defscroec and claimed,

l it underserved 'that changes in ilse precise emlfcrlment of the lnvenioa may be mede w t in me scope of what is claimed Without departiisg from the spirit oi' the invention.

A practiced emloedment of the invention is iliumrete in the accompanying drawing, where- Figure 1 shows me glei-e and shield device o mounted on #eur oi edtemobile. end

2 is e. sectional view teken ou line 2.-2`, Heure 1.

Referring to the drawing. l!! denotes e. conventieni-.i vleor cuetromerly provided 2:5 standard equipment m en eubomohl-leysuclr weer being usually formed o! e alom covering placed over a backing. the whole being mounted or: e. rod H-for plvoel up and dorm increment thereon, the rod H being in turn supported on a A bracket (not shown) :or swlnglng movement in s beriecntel piane whereby the visor in may be pled either in iront of or to the left side o! the driver, all in the meneer well known. l Such Visors are ln moet ceses satisfactory-but fall short ln relieving the driver of glare resultiris 1mm the head lights o! approaching mrs during night driving as well asfrom the glare and the dlret rays of the sun when into the same as during the early inox-ning or late afternoon hours.A To 'obviate this shortcoming. -thereis provided en auxillary shield devioe l2 which Aeonsisto of a. sheet vI3 of transparentmsterlel such as glass, Celluloid or other $5 suitable transparent materialoigny desired size,

l 'cloned misleid e meer" Y tion o: ealcfsheet' and being o! a. length less than but prefexebly o! e length end width not exceedme the leeg@ :mo Width e! the meedeed visor.

The upper edge portioe. of the shield 3 is posi- Llie ammi/ei einem unwortlng ber lis sind eml'; seemed thereto ee by the rivets 5. Preferebtr the Der l le o e. lengh les! than time eee'ih' ci' the Se end la centrally pestieneo' merma. Formed integre-l or ailierwlee soeziy eteeiwd-eo tee is@ i5 isn pei: o! rearwardly l wel; provided at their :tree erxcll portino, en owning i, beth -sel openings bem@ i aligned regulering reition.

For mounting the :shield i3 ce the .vlam il there leerer/ideal e im'ped ming clip 2% formed of a?, spring.: stoel: front tmf. rear legs 2l and 2. of e iene-:lh slightly ieee than the width of the visor, the legs beleg oined el'. izlxcei:v

'upper endeA by e. curved Eight portion 23 of s. -size such es to permit ready plecerneat of the clip on seid visor wel is elim-#fed thereorer ln a downwardly in the manner clearly shown. Formed 111 lower end of the front leg 2|, are a' perfs of parallel .e1-me. 5 nomzel to the piene of the frere?. 2i eeh provided with opening Zd, wie-h bolli opexnes in aligned registering releion. The disemce between the leg arma is auch es to snugly receive merebetween in rietlonel engagement the bei' arms le which leteer are eeeure te the former by meerxs o a bell: 2@ irgeezbed through the registerlng openings i' wel 2E.

In the placement ol che :shield der'lce i2 on the visor lil the'ron: leg 22 of the clip ls posicloned on the ede'ei the visor sexually facing S3 the driver. The pee-"s of the shield device l! .are so designeddlmemcned tim?, in the mouritecl position thereof with the Shield 3 depending vezlicelly in parallel relation te the visor lo, the upper aeg@ parte@ of en@ Smead m wm 40 mm uam' eroe UEx-wim im .aoreeoeme weon hieldand visor for the passage of light therel between.

As shown in Figure 2, the shield may be ddjust-ed into any desired angular position, being nem mmm by virtue or me fricdonm intereng'agernent of the leg and ber 24 end Il Having thus described my invention. I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

An auxiliary glare and light shield device for use with a. visor oomprisng a sheet of transparent material, a bar member of channel form adapted to receiveiberein the upper edge porthe width o! said sheet. means rigidly connecting said sheet to said bar member. a clip Amember ofV inverted Uiorm comprising iront and rearjre silient legs adapted to pgxe the corresponding sides of said visor, the free ens of said legs 1ying adjacent the'iower edge of said visor. a pair of parallel arms integral with the lower end of said iront ieg and normal to the piane thereof,4 a pair of parallel rearwardly directed arms formed 381,641 Y i .Y A

integral with -said bar member 'andi positioned I ,Y i

mediaiiy thereff, both said pairs otearms being `so oonstructed and arranged as to trictiozmliy engage each. other, and pivot means' nonriectinsz Asam pairs o arms im' relative movement of said i sh A t and-clip about an axis pgraliel to the piane o! said sheet and visu.

mum STEVENS SCHWAB. l

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